PEANUT CHUTNEY

Ingredients:

1 cup Plain peanuts (with or without skin, as preferred)

1/4 cup Channa dal

5 dry Red chillies

Salt to taste

Walnut-sized ball of tamarind

1 tsp Mustard seeds

1 sprig curry leaf

1 tsp Oil

Method:

Heat a griddle till it is very hot, on a medium flame. Roast the peanuts,channa dal and dry red chillies (stirring frequently) on this griddle till they give off a gentle cooked aroma.

Allow to cool completely and then grind the peanuts,channa dal,tamarind and chillies to a coarse powder.

Add salt to taste.

Add enough water to coarse powder and grind to get a thick and smooth paste.

Heat oil in pan and season mustard seeds and curry leaf. Add it to chutney.

Serve with dosa/idli.